How to format your references using the Business Ethics: A European Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Business Ethics: A European Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wingreen, N. S. (2004). Physics. Quantum many-body effects in a single-electron transistor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1258–1259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Showalter, M. R., & Hamilton, D. P. (2015). Resonant interactions and chaotic rotation of Pluto’s small moons. Nature, 522(7554), 45–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melcák, I., Hoelz, A., & Blobel, G. (2007). Structure of Nup58/45 suggests flexible nuclear pore diameter by intermolecular sliding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1729–1732.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lipman, E. A., Schuler, B., Bakajin, O., & Eaton, W. A. (2003). Single-molecule measurement of protein folding kinetics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637), 1233–1235.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Larrieu, N., & Varet, A. (2014). Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vinel, A., Mehmood, R., Berbineau, M., Garcia, C. R., Huang, C.-M., & Chilamkurti, N. (Eds.). (2012). Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 4th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 25-27, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7266). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Holleis, P., & Schmidt, A. (2008). MakeIt: Integrate User Interaction Times in the Design Process of Mobile Applications. In J. Indulska, D. J. Patterson, T. Rodden, & M. Ott (Eds.), Pervasive Computing: 6th International Conference, Pervasive 2008 Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 56–74). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Business Ethics: A European Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 11). Could The Big Bang Actually Be A Big Bounce? Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/could-the-big-bang-actually-be-a-big-bounce/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2009). School Facilities: Physical Conditions in School Districts Receiving Impact Aid for Students Residing on Indian Lands (No. GAO-10-32). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tiedemann-Fuller, P. M. (2008). A descriptive Rorschach study of children who have experienced chronic complex abuse (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey, G. (2010, January 13). Coaches Come and Go, Except JoePa. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wingreen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Showalter & Hamilton, 2015; Wingreen, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Showalter & Hamilton, 2015)
Three authors: (Melcák, Hoelz, & Blobel, 2007)
6 or more authors: (Lipman, Schuler, Bakajin, & Eaton, 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Ethics: A European Review
Abbreviation	Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	0962-8770
ISSN (online)	1467-8608
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics